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AWS Certified Database – Specialty (DBS-C01) Certification Guide

By : Kate Gawron
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AWS Certified Database – Specialty (DBS-C01) Certification Guide

5 (1)
By: Kate Gawron

Overview of this book

The AWS Certified Database – Specialty certification is one of the most challenging AWS certifications. It validates your comprehensive understanding of databases, including the concepts of design, migration, deployment, access, maintenance, automation, monitoring, security, and troubleshooting. With this guide, you'll understand how to use various AWS databases, such as Aurora Serverless and Global Database, and even services such as Redshift and Neptune. You’ll start with an introduction to the AWS databases, and then delve into workload-specific database design. As you advance through the chapters, you'll learn about migrating and deploying the databases, along with database security techniques such as encryption, auditing, and access controls. This AWS book will also cover monitoring, troubleshooting, and disaster recovery techniques, before testing all the knowledge you've gained throughout the book with the help of mock tests. By the end of this book, you'll have covered everything you need to pass the DBS-C01 AWS certification exam and have a handy, on-the-job desk reference guide.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
1
Part 1: Introduction to Databases on AWS
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2
Chapter 1: AWS Certified Database – Specialty Overview
5
Part 2: Workload-Specific Database Design
12
Part 3: Deployment and Migration and Database Security
16
Part 4: Monitoring and Optimization
20
Part 5: Assessment
21
Chapter 16: Exam Practice

Cheat sheet

This cheat sheet summarizes the key points from this chapter:

  • You can use a variety of tools to automate your AWS processes by using the AWS CLI, CloudFormation, and the CDK, depending on the use case.
  • The AWS CLI is well suited for running creation tasks or for obtaining the status and information about your AWS infrastructure and services.
  • CloudFormation is used to create stacks. Stacks are groups of AWS components that should be deployed together. They can be used to create a full application stack containing a VPC, security groups, EC2 servers, RDS databases, and almost all other AWS services.
  • CloudFormation can offer deletion protection to stop someone from accidentally deleting a stack and its components.
  • AWS Glue is used to create a metadata schema of a wide variety of data sources, such as CSV files within S3 or Amazon Redshift tables. It can also be used to create more complex ETL jobs by adding data transformation rules.
  • AWS Glue supports...